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College Consultant Tip: Three Awesome Internet Resources

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The holidays are a great time to eat pie, play with your new video games, and enjoy the fact that school feels a million miles away. Every student going to high school today (even the lazy kid in the back of the class) is so busy during the year that I heartily recommend taking it easy when you have a break.

If you're smart, however, you won't waste all of your time for the next two weeks.  Instead, you'll use some of the free time you've got over Winter Break to start thinking about next semester...and about college!

But where to start?  Should you visit school websites?  Start cracking on your essay?  Review Algebra II?

Let's be honest.  You're not going to do any of those things. Tasks like visiting school websites are boring, random, and tough to focus on when you feel that you aren't leaving for school soon.  You need tasks that are active right now!

With that in mind, here are some sites that will let you get active right now and get ready for school:

• Campus Compare is an incredible way to research college options on the internet.  Using their awesome tools, you can enter all of your information and Campus Compare will find schools that you will love!  They will even tell you how likely you are to get in...

• FastWeb is the single best way to find scholarships often and early.  You enter your data and the site finds the applications for you, giving you access to daily updates about thousands of scholarships that are keyed directly to your information...

• Study Hacks is a wonderful study aid site that will help to keep you sane as your academic schedule gets more complex.  The author, a Ph.D. student at MIT, helps students simplify their lives AND achieve greater levels of success.  He's got almost 5,000 subscribers (including me!) and you should subscribe as well...

So go to it, Omniac Attack readers!  Take advantage of all that free time and start using some resources!

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Got any great resources I missed?  Leave them for me in the comments and I'll add them to the main post!